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Word: waft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Darius Milhaud, climbed carefully into a chair raised a foot above the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall. From the chair he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra through the first performance of his Symphony No. 2. During tranquil passages he waved his arms gently, as if they would waft him into the air like a weightless blimp. When the music was loud he slid from his chair and stood threateningly on tiptoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homesick | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Wide-shouldered, hairy-chested William Nassaur, whose Courtley, Ltd. shaving soaps, lotions, talcs, and bubble baths had already deodorized and sweetened thousands of U.S. males, got set last week to waft his perfume worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Sniff, Sniff | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...moaning female voice singing of the woes of Waban women will waft itself over the Crimson Network tomorrow night as the College station imports the entire cast of the Wellesley Junior Show to the Leverett Junior Common Room for a broadcast at 10 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Sulks as Network Brings Waban Chirpers Here | 11/18/1942 | See Source »

...title is derived from Harlow's first disastrous spring practice at a Harvard, indifferent to the point of hostility. It was in 1935, and according to Harlow, "I was stunned. . . . Something was wrong. These boys evidently expected their coach to brew some magic formula to waft the other team away before each game in the fall. . . . They didn't need coaching; it was a matter of psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Claims Individual Psychology Reason For Lack of Harvard Indifference on Gridiron | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

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